The Arizona sentinel., 1887-02-05
LOCAL NOTES.
Cultivate thoroughly.

colony left Thursday.
 Mr. Hart, of Tucson, was in Yuma couple of days this week. Buds are beginning to uwell up with de light at the warm sunlight.
 The reported and expected change of th' S. P. timetable did not take place.
 Reports from All points throughout th' territory speak of bosms and rumors oi booms.
 The Colorado river steamer arrived Sat urday morning last from the Needles and way ports.
 Hon. Isaac Lyons has our thanks for copies of the Governors message and oth, l public documents.
 Mr. John Juhl and family, of Ehreuberg are visiting the parents of Mrs. Juhl, MT. and Mrs. August Green.
 Heavy banks of clouds in the west at sun. set during the week led some of the more recent residents to expect rain.
 At last the Mexican war veterans are to receive their deserts, Congress having pass ed the act granting their pensions.
 Judge Levy, of the firm of Levy & Co.,, now doing business at Silent, was in town this week, and left for home yesterday.
 Hon. Samuel Purdy has had his office nicely retitted, and added several hundred dollars worth of books to his law library.
 The Colorado river steamer weighed an chor Wednesday and departed for up-river ports. carrying heavy cargo of merchan- disc.
 Mir. John Goodrich and Mr. Harry Good rich, brother and son ot Vim. Goodrich of Antelope valley, visited that valley last week.
 wm. Blaukership. Constable of PhceniT, came down to Yuma Tuesday night on off, cial business; but MT. Blankership found that his man had skipped.
 We read of northers in Texas, blizzards in the east and shake-ups in California, while our Arizona climate is serene, balmy and delightful and our real estate solid and booming.
 It is now positively stated that the new time schedule of the Southern Pacific will go into effect sa San Francisco on the sth inst. The change will probably not reach here until few days later.
 Mir. John Hayes, Superintendent of Ter. do cclsny at the mouth of the Colorado river. paid this office pleasant visit this week. He reports the colony in most prosperous and hourishing condition.
 Mr. J. B. Raiue, former resident of Los Angeles county, now prominent stock raiser of Cochise county, was in Yuma on last Saturday. He was en route to Los Angeles with several cars of fine beef cattle.
 Excursion trains for various points in California passed through Yuma almost daily the past week. The excursionists were long enough iu Yuma to get a breath Ol OuT PuteS osAnly AT, e0u She uni'SLsai expression was one delight.
 Having formed desirable professional connection in Washington, am prepared to speedily and chsaply secure Mexican war pensions, for those entitled to the same within the territory. SAMUEL PURDY,
 Attorney -at-law.
 Rumor hath it that the Southern Pacific contemplate defecting their road from Mar icopa to Phoenix, thence to Florence and up the GiIs and San Pedro to Benson. In the not remote hence the rich and extensive valleys of the lower Gila will be tapped by a lire ot railroad.
 R. D. Chappell, of Antelope valley, and Jesse Crane, of Los Angeles county. called upon us this week. Mr. ChAppell informs us that land hunters are numerous and that the greater part of the surveyed portion of the valley is already located as we'll as part of the unsurveyed.
 One of our exchanges from Texas says: ''H you like this paper, and feel that you can spare the money, we would like to have you subscribe for the same. But we would hate to learn that, after subscribing, you had starved to death, when g worth of grub would have saved you"